What are the advantages and disadvantages on both 35mm Film and digital SLR cameras in Forensics?
There has been a long history of film in forensic photography, with established protocols for every format, film type and focal length lens. It is relatively easy to determine if any final prints have been manipulated in any way. At present evidence of fraudulent changes in documents can be photographed using a combination of IR and UV light photographs and the authenticity of those techniques have long been established within the forensic community Digital photography has an reputation of being able to be manipulated easily by using programs like Photoshop and you can see that by the questions seen on the venue and others. In fact there can be some manipulation, but while it is relatively easy to prove such manipulation, disproving manipulation can be very difficult to do in front of a jury. With the introduction of the Nikon D200, an on-board feature was added called Image Authentication which when activated will show if a file as been manipulated or if it indeed a copy of an origina
